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Historical Event on 12/23/1920

King George V signs Home Rule Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1746French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais & Dupleix Madras.
1/14/1969Madras State renamed Tamil Nadu.
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
9/29/1977India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water.
4/16/1801Warrior Vithoji Holkar of Peshwa kingdom was assassinated.
6/11/1901Pramathanath Bishi, professor and Hindi writer, was born.
1/15/1965Food Corporation of India inaugurated in Madras.
10/10/1970Union Government ruled out judicial probe into the death of the late PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.
1/24/1966Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India. She continued in this office till March 24, 1977, after winning the General Elections. She became the only second woman in modern history to head a government.
2/23/1962The Cholera Research Centre was established at Calcutta (renamed as the National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases in 1979).